“To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.”

Knowing is not enough, You must apply.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Be a practical dreamer backed by action.

To live is to express oneself freely.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot.

People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

Don’t ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Turn your sparring into play – but always play seriously.

When one is not expressing himself, he is not free.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

When the leaves begin to fall, I find myself returning to old playlists in hopes that I can feel you holding my hand, or kissing me goodnight, or hear you singing my name into songs and blueing when it makes no sense.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.

Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.

No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life’s journey can be different. With God’s help you can begin again.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.